President Sean M. Decatur

Kenyon's nineteenth president is a biochemist, an educator, and a Beatles aficionado who grew up with lessons of learning. Most recently he has guided the College through a two-year study to chart a course for the future known as Kenyon 2020.

Sean M. Decatur, an emerging national leader in higher education, became the nineteenth president of Kenyon College on July 1, 2013. A champion of the liberal arts, Decatur earned a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College and a doctorate in biophysical chemistry at Stanford University. The presidential inauguration took place October 26, 2013.

All evidence points to a liberal arts education as being a successful platform for a full range of careers and that we graduate students who think critically, who communicate well, and who can solve problems.